Adjustable necktie



July 5, 1927.

Filed June 23, 1926 S. FINE ET AL ADJUSTABLE NECKTIE Patented July 5, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADJUSTABLE NEGKTIE.

Application filed June 23, 1926. Serial No. 118,022.

lhe invention relates to an adjustable necktie, as described in the present speciiication and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part 01"- the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel features of construction pointed out in the claim for novelty "following a description containing an explanation in detail of an acceptable form of the invention. The objects of the invention are to facilitate the adjustment 01 a tie to the various sizes of necks particularly in bat wing ties, where it is so important that the tying ends shall be brought permanently into the proper position and length for making up the bow; to insure comfort and neatness for the person using the ties; to produce the tie at a low cost in fact at very little advance to the non-adjustable tie; to eliminate all standard buckles, loops, bars and such like mainly on account of their impossibility through the bulkiness incurred in their attachment; and generally to provide a neat, serviceable and eificient means for adjusting the neck measurements of neckties.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tie showing the means for adjusting.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view.

liigure 3 is a plan view of the blank con stituting an adjusting member.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the adjusting member ready for application.

Figure 5 is an end view of an adjusting member.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures.

Referring to the drawings, the necktie illustrated is 01" the bat wing style and is formed of two pieces 10 and 11, these pieces having the bow tie ends 12 and 13 narrowing into the neckband portions 14 and 15 respectively.

-The adjusting and clamping members 16 and 17 are each made preferably of very thin spring sheet steel. Each member has a depressed cross bar 18 for holding the necktie and sewing bases 19 and 20 brought under the bar 18 and extending transversely therefrom having the sewing holes 21 in the bases 19 and 20.

The members 16 and 17 are sewn on to the respective ends of the pieces 10 and 11 at the extreme ends of the neck band portions 1 1 and 15, the latter are clamped under their respective bars 18, the depression 22 of which grips the neck bands firmly but not so hard as to stop the adjustment, as the distance between adjusters may be increased considerably for the smaller sizes while for the larger sizes they are drawn towards one another.

To adjust the tie one adjuster is held in. the hand and the neck band carefully pulled through, then the other adjuster is held and the other neck band carefully pulled through, then by pulling the two pieces straight the tie is .smoothed out and ready for wear according to the adjusted size.

What we claim is In an adjustable necktie, two tie pieces each having an adjusting and clamping member formed of a depressed holding cross bar terminating at each end into inturned sewing bases extending transversely 75 therefrom and having sewing holes.

Signed at Montreal, Canada, this 15th day of June, 1926.

I SOLOMON FINE.

HARRY DWVORKIN. 

